Sorry this chapter took so long coming up. It's just I don't really like the water temple so it took me a while to complete it. All the rooms look the same and it's big and confusing and I get lost D:
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Link pulled on the blue tunic and the oxygen tank and leapt into Lake Hylia.
"ARGH! It's bloody freezing!" He yelped, splashing frantically.
"Well what did you expect? It's a lake." Midna said.
"This thing doesn't even work as a wetsuit or anything," Link complained, picking at the blue tunic. "You'd think it would at least keep me warm or something."
"I wouldn't complain about it if I were you," Midna advised. "You're in the water, after all. That ghost zora queen might send another water creature after you."
"I bet that was just coincidence," Link muttered. "There just happened to be a shark and piranhas in that pool."
"So why are you wearing the blue tunic then?"
"I'm... being polite."
"Mmm, sure. Well go on then, go find that temple..." Link dived underwater and began swimming. And swimming. And swimming. This is so slow, he thought. I'd be faster just putting on the heavy boots and sinking to the bottom and walking. He equipped the heavy boots and immediately began sinking further and further until eventually he hit the bottom. He unequipped the boots, and swam up to what looked like a hole in the rocks. That must be the entrance! He thought, and swam into it. Only to find his path blocked by a large boulder. Damn! He yelled in his head. How do I get past that?
Someone tapped Link on the shoulder and he turned around. It was the postman, dressed in full diving gear. He handed Link a letter sealed in a transparent waterproof bag and swam off. Link squinted at the letter, trying to read it in the half-darkness.
New product at Barne's bombs!
Do you urgently need to get somewhere underwater but there are giant rocks in the way? Well no problem! Come to Barne's bombs and buy some all-new water bombs to blow them up!
Midna appeared next to Link.
"Well, looks like you're going to have to go alllll the way back to the bomb shop!" she giggled. How come Midna gets to talk underwater? Link thought crossly. And now I've got to go all the way back...
"Here are your water bombs! Any questions?" Barnes asked happily.
"Well yes actually," Link said. "Why can't you send your letters BEFORE I go and find a massive boulder that needs blowing up?" Barnes held his hands up.
"Hey, don't blame me, blame the postman."
"Hmph," Link muttered and stormed out of the shop. Midna floated behind him.
"Back to Lake Hylia!" She cried.
Link once again pulled on his blue tunic and heavy boots and prepared to step into Lake Hylia.
"Say, Link?" asked Midna.
"Yeah, what this time?" Link asked.
"You always carry those heavy boots with you, don't you?" she asked.
"Of course I do. I never know when I'm going to need them!"
"So how come they only make you sink when you're wearing them? And where do you store them?" Link was speechless.
"Well... I don't really know! You're right, I should sink when I'm carrying them even if I'm not wearing them!"
"Well you must know where you put stuff when you're not using it?" Midna prompted.
"Uhhh..." Link scratched his head. "I guess it just goes in my pockets... I never really think about it much..."
"You don't HAVE any pockets!" Midna said. Link looked down at his tunic.
"What the hell? You're right, where does it go?"
"If you don't know, I don't suppose anyone does," said Midna. "Let's just stop worrying about it and get going."
"Yeah. Before my brain explodes." Link jumped into Lake Hylia once again.
Link emerged spluttering into the lakebed temple.
"Nice swim?" Midna enquired.
"I'm all wet," Link said mournfully.
"Clever child. You've just been fully immersed in water for the past however long."
"Shut up." Link opened the door and walked into the next room. There were several fragile-looking stalactites (A/N I think stalactites are the ones that hang from the ceiling... correct me if I'm wrong) hanging from the ceiling. Midna floated to one.
"You should knock this down or it might fall on your head."
"What? It's not gonna fall down, look at it!"
"Well knock it down anyway. I want to see you attach a bomb to an arrow and shoot it!"
"Only because you think something will go wrong and I'll blow myself up."
"Yeah!" Midna said happily. "And also because those ledges are too high for you to climb up without something to stand on, and those stalactites are strategically placed so you can stand on them if you knock them down." Link glared and pulled out his bow, arrows and bombs. He attached a bomb to an arrow and aimed it carefully at a stalactite.
"You might not want to aim that for too long, or it'll explode," Midna commented.
"What?" Link said. Then it did explode.
"Damn you Midna! I swear you timed that on purpose!" Link yelled.
"Yes, I did. So?" Link got to his feet and fired arrows with bombs on quickly towards the stalactites, knocking them all down. He climbed up and reached the door, going through to the next room.
"Heh, look at that!" Link said some time later, pointing. Midna looked.
"That looks like some sort of slide!"
"I'm gonna go climb up it!"
"You big kid." Midna watched as Link walked up the giant spiral.
"It's not very slippery. And it's really long!" Finally, he reached the top.
"Oh look! A handle!" He leapt off the platform and grabbed hold of the handle, pulling it down with him. A gate opened and water began flowing down the spiral slide. Link was swept off his feet and slid down the slope.
"WOAHHH!" He slipped off the end into a now full pool of water. "That was awesome! A water slide! I'm gonna do that again!" He climbed back onto the slide but instantly slipped back down. "Damn, can't get back up."
"Never mind that, look! There is a kind of channel in the floor, and the water is flowing through it!" Midna said.
"Oh yeah! Let's see where it goes!"
Link followed the channel back.
"Oh! These platforms are spinning now! It's like a merry-go-round! This place isn't a temple, it's a playground!"
"A playground where you could potentially die. I don't think it would pass any health and safety inspections."
"Oh well, it's only a couple of monsters." Link leapt from the ledge onto a platform and stood there while it rotated around the room. He leapt off, grabbing onto another ledge and climbing onto it. He walked through the door into the next room.
Link swam along the passage until he reached a wall. He swam up, breathing deeply as he broke the surface.
"Urgh, that was a long passage. And what was with those damn electric jellyfish?"
"I thought it was funny when you got zapped," Midna giggled.
"You would," Link grumbled, and climbed out into the room. Instantly, two flaps shot over the pool he had been in, sealing it shut.
"Damn, I'm trapped!" Link looked around. There was a door in the corner, which he walked over to. However, when he got close it was clear that he wasn't going to be getting out of there. The stairs leading up to the door were totally smashed and unusable, and it was too high for him to climb.
"How am I supposed to get out of here?"
"You're not," cackled Midna. "You're stuck here forever, ha ha!"
"Very mature. But seriously, how do I get out?" Link was beginning to panic.
"Well what do you normally do in this situation?"
"Beat a boss monster. But there is no boss monster!" Something splashed in the water in front of him. Link backed off.
"It's like a giant tadpole..." The giant tadpole growled and bared its toothless gums. Link snorted.
"What does it think it's gonna do?" The tadpole made a noise that sounded suspiciously like a howl. Fangs sprouted from its mouth and it grew a thin coat of fur.
"What the heck?"
"It's obviously been bitten by a werewolf!" Midna giggled. Link sighed.
"Still not much of a threat. THAT'S the boss?" He stepped forwards and sliced at it with his sword. The tadpole curled up and exploded.
"Well that was easy." There was another splash behind him. Link turned around. "More of them?" He slashed at the were-poles with his sword until there were none left. There was another splash.
"How many of these are there? And where are they coming from?" He looked up. A giant frog looked down at him.
"Oh, shi-" The frog leapt down and smashed heavily into the floor. It looked at Link. Link looked back.
"Maybe the frog hasn't been bitten?" Link said hopefully. The frog opened its mouth and its huge tongue lolled out. "See? It doesn't have teeth..."
"Not yet it doesn't!" Said Midna. Sure enough, the frog howled eerily.
"It sounds like a werewolf..." Link shivered. Fangs sprouted from the frogs mouth and fur began growing from its body. Link backed off as claws sprouted from its webbed feet.
"OK, this is getting weirder and weirder!" To complete the metamorphosis, a furry tail flopped down from the frogs rear end. "What the heck?" said Link.
"Never mind that, it's coming for you!" Midna shouted.
"No it's not, it's just sitting there..." The were-frog shook itself and loads of giant were-poles flew off its back. They hissed and transformed before wriggling towards Link at a frightening speed.
"Argh! Get away!" He slashed at them, killing several. One sneaked behind him and leapt at him, snapping its teeth into his shoulder. Link shook it off and hit it with his sword. He spun around, slicing the remaining were-poles. They curled up and burst. The frog bellowed with fury and leapt straight into the air.
"AHHHHH!" Link ran around in circles, trying to avoid being squashed by the frog as it came back down. It landed heavily next to him and its tongue lolled out in shock from the impact. Link took his chance and slashed at it. The were-frog bellowed, its mouth gaping wide open.
"Hungry?" Asked Link, and threw a bomb in its mouth. The bomb exploded and the were-frog flopped back down. Link continued his attack on its tongue. Eventually, the were-frog began to shake, and vomited up a large object.
"Ew." Said Midna. The were-frog flipped over on its back and writhed around before bursting into nothingness. Link ran over to the object the frog had vomited up. It was a large chest.
"You're not going to open that are you? Ewwww!" Midna said as Link opened the chest and pulled out something out.
"Da da da daaaaaa! I got the clawshot!"
"What does that do?" In answer to her question, Link pressed a lever on the clawshot and the claws shot out, gripping onto a hook on the wall just above the door.
"Well that's boring," Midna commented. Then the clawshot contracted, yanking Link up with it until he was dangling above the door.
"No it's not! It's awesome!" Link then spent several minutes using the chain to go up and down, up and down, up and down...
"For god's sake! Just go through that door!" Midna snapped. "You'll have plenty of opportunities to do that later!" Link scowled.
"Fine." He released the clawshot and fell to the ground in front of the door. "Let's go."
"OMG A CLIMBING WALL!" Link screamed. Midna sighed.
"THIS IS NOT A PLAYGROUND." Link ignored her and fired his clawshot at the thick ivy covering the wall, grabbing onto it when the clawshot pulled him up to it. He climbed along the wall up to a platform, and walked through the door.
"Ooh, another water slide!" He said excitedly.
"You can't get in there, there's no door!" said Midna. Link looked up.
"Yes I can! Monkey bars! This is an awesome playground!" Midna followed his gaze.
"Those aren't monkey bars! It's just a load of manky old ivy!"
"It's monkey bars if I say it is!" Link clawshotted up to the ivy and monkeybarred through a gap in the wall before dropping down on the other side. "See?" Midna face-palmed.
"But this slide is all broken. And there are piranhas in that water down there..." she commented.
"You're lying." Link continued up the slide. "There are no piranhas. They would never allow that in a playground."
"This isn't a playground!" Midna yelled. "They wouldn't allow giant were-frogs in playgrounds either!" Link ignored her.
"OW! YOWCH! ARGH! WHY ARE THERE PIRANHAS IN THE POOL?" Link shrieked five minutes later as he was bitten several times. Midna smirked.
"I told you so..."
Link finally opened the boss door. Gathering up his courage, he entered the room. It was tiny.
"Where's the boss?" He asked. "The door hasn't even shut!"
"Well I'm no genius, but down there looks a good bet," Midna said, pointing at a large hole which took up the majority of the room.
"You don't seriously expect me to jump down there? I won't be able to get out again. I can't even see how deep it is. It might be a bottomless pit for all you know."
"Well," smirked Midna. "They would never allow bottomless pits in a playground. Pretend it's a fireman's pole or something."
"But there's no pole!"
"Use your imagination, you wimp." Link walked to the edge of the hole and peered down it. Nothing but blackness. He turned to Midna.
"If I die, this is your fault." Then he leapt down the hole. He fell for a couple of feet before splashing into water. He pulled on his oxygen tank and heavy boots, and began to sink further and further into the water. After what felt like hours of sinking, his feet collided with the bottom. He looked around. There was a weird tentacley thing sprouting out of the floor.
What's that? He wondered. All of a sudden, his question was answered as the head of a large eel-like creature erupted from the ground in front of him. He stumbled backwards silently. The eel stared at him but did not attack. I thought I was going to be fighting a vampire or a werewolf! Link thought, confused. Then he saw it. The vampire, also wearing an oxygen tank, dismounted from the eel's back and swam down to Link.
"Hello there," he hissed. "My name is Emmet Cullen."
"How are you talking underwater?" Link asked. "Oh wait! I can talk underwater too!"
"Well done genius. Now prepare to die!" Emmet snarled. He swam back up to the giant eel and sat on the back of its head, holding onto two of the tentacles sprouting from it.
The eel buried its massive body into the ground, with only the head, the tentacles and Emmet above the ground. A tentacle shot towards Link and wrapped around his waist before he had a chance to react. He struggled, but the tentacle pinned his arms to his side, lifting him up easily and dragging him towards the eel and Emmet. Emmet slashed at Link when he got close enough, and the eel opened its mouth. Emmet smiled.
"In you go." Then the tentacle shoved Link into the eel's mouth. The sharp teeth bit him over and over again, until the eel got bored and spat him out. He landed on the ground, minus one heart.
"Damn," he gasped. "I can't get close or I'll be grabbed by the tentacles!" He tried swimming quickly towards the eel, slashing at the tentacles when they got too close, but whilst he was fending off one another one sneaked around his back and wrapped once more around him. Link wriggled as hard as he could, but the tentacle was too strong and pulled him once again towards Emmet. Emmet smiled and pummelled Link with his fists. Link doubled up, and the tentacle released him, flinging him against the wall. He swam what he thought was a safe distance away from the eel, and equipped his heavy boots, sinking to the bottom.
"What can I do?" He gasped. "I can't get close to attack or I'll be grabbed!"
"Try bringing Emmet to you then!" Midna said. "That eel's buried itself so it won't be getting out fast enough to attack you if you keep a safe distance."
"Of course! Thanks Midna!" Link swam cautiously towards the eel and pulled out his clawshot. He aimed it at the vampire, and shot it. The claws on the end shot out and fixed around the vampire's arm. Emmet looked at his arm in surprise.
"What?" Then he was yanked off the eel's back and landed at Links feet. Link slashed at the vampire with his sword until he hissed and knocked Link off his feet. He swam back to the eel at top speed, climbing onto its giant head once again.
"Try and hit me now!" He hissed angrily, poking the back of the eel's head. The eel opened its mouth and several round fish swam out. Link squinted.
"They look like my water bombs!" One of the fish swam towards him, teeth bared and he slashed it with his sword. The fish immediately began fizzing and sparking.
"Link! Put it down!" Midna yelled, but too late. The fish exploded, causing Link to lose yet another heart. He swore several times before getting back on his feet and aiming his clawshot at Emmet once again.
"These damn fish keep getting in the way!" He yelled, frustrated as he fired the clawshot and it returned with another bomb fish. He threw this one away quickly before it exploded and aimed again. This time, he was more lucky and Emmet Cullen was once again pulled towards him.
"Got you!" Link snarled and hit the vampire with his sword again and again. Eventually Emmet dodged a hit, and swam back to his eel. He grabbed the tentacles, and shook them. The eel erupted from the ground and swam over Link's head.
"After him!" Midna yelled. Link chased the eel, but he was much too slow and the eel kept getting away. However, he noticed what a rough back the eel had. He waited until the eel was close to him again before shooting his clawshot at the eel. It grasped onto the creature's leathery back and pulled Link towards it. He landed on the eel's back and pulled out his sword.
"You're nowhere near Emmet!" Midna yelled.
"Well I've got to take care of the eel as well!" Link yelled, and slashed at the eel. The eel jerked, and Link equipped his heavy boots and held on, continuing to slash the eel. Eventually, the eel's wild bucking threw him off. He landed at the bottom and watched as the eel thrashed wildly, eventually crashing into the wall head-first. Emmet Cullen was thrown off the eel and slammed into the wall. Link swam up to him, meaning to finish him off but the vampire grabbed his arm.
"You're coming down with me!" He hissed and began to sparkle. Link tried to get free but Emmet's grip was too tight.
"NOO!" Link screamed. Then the eel thrashed one last time, knocking the two of them apart. Emmet exploded into sparkles, along with his giant eel. The water in the chamber mysteriously drained away to a puddle, and a heart container and fused shadow appeared. Midna smiled.
"Well, congratulations!" She floated over to the fused shadow and picked it up. "That's the last of them. Now we can get to the Twilight realm and deal with that faker, Bella Cullen! Good work. Leave whenever you're ready!" She formed a portal and waited. Link gathered up the heart container and stepped into the portal. Instantly, he reformed outside at Lake Hylia.
"Finally... now I can take this stupid tunic off!"